About

Astrid Blazsek-Ayala is an economist and artist from Guatemala.  She has a PhD in Economics from University of Navarre, Spain (2010), and holds a degree in Advanced Studies in Photography and Management of Photographic Projects from La Fototeca and the University of San Carlos de Guatemala (2016).  She has also studied several subjects in Node Center, such as Introduction to curatorial studies, Contemporary artistic photography, Experimental processes in photography, Artistic creative process and project conceptualization, Art and feminisms, and Art, politics and activism.

In 2020, she had solo exhibitions of her project Mythological Imaginings in the HeadOn Photo Festival (Australia), and in the Antigua Tipografía Sánchez & De Guise (Guatemala). Her work has participated in collective exhibitions in Guatemala in Espacio Satélite (2018, 2019), Museo Arte Guatemala (2018) and Fototropía (2016).  Her work is part of the publication Prisma Volumen II (2018).  In 2017, she co-founded the Collective Agalma, Guatemala.  In her recent work, Polyphony, she explores the contributions of woman artists through history and combines the topics and ideas developed by the artists with the underlying values present in mythologies.  She is interested in the interpretation of mythologies, as meta-stories that propose answers to questions about the origin and destiny of the human being.  Mythologies are the product of a context and represent the ideals of a culture. Through this interpretation, the ingenuity, creativity, and mediation of different cultures in our way of understanding the world is evidenced.

astridblazsekayala@gmail.com

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